Kevin Everett
doctors: Could be walking within weeks

Doctors upgrade the prognosis,
the injured Buffalo Bills tight end Kevin Everett could be
walking within weeks.

After
a grim initial prognosis, the doctors now believe that Kevin
Everett could be walking within weeks and is expected to stand
up on his own within the next few days. Everett received a
potentially life threatening spinal-cord injury during the
season-opener game between the Buffalo Bills and the Denver
Broncos on September 9th. A routine tackle against the Broncos'
Domenik Hixon left Kevin Everett lying on the field and had to
be hurried to the hospital. A day after the incident the
orthopedic surgeon gave a bleak prognosis for the future of the
Buffalo Bills tight end, saying that full recovery would be
highly unlikely and that permanent paralysis was the possible
outcome of the sustained injury.

Earlier today, Kevin Everett was flown
to Huston to start the long months of rehabilitation at home. He
is being transferred from Buffalo's Millard Fillmore Gates
Hospital to Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston, as suggested
by Dr. Barth Green, chairman of the neurological surgery
department at the University of Miami school of medicine, who
has been in close contact with Everett's doctors. According to
Dr. Green, having his family close would significantly improve
Everett's outlook.